Lost Highways, Embodied Travels
Author: Kornelia Boczkowska
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2023-02-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789004537248
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Lost Highways, Embodied Travels: The Road Movie in American Experimental Film and Video
Author: Kornelia Boczkowska
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-02-06
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9004537988
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Audio-vision
Author: Michel Chion
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780231078993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeals with issue of sound in audio-visual images
Cinema of Confinement
Author: Thomas J. Connelly
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2019-02-15
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0810139235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Thomas J. Connelly draws on a number of key psychoanalytic concepts from the works of Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Žižek, Joan Copjec, Michel Chion, and Todd McGowan to identify and describe a genre of cinema characterized by spatial confinement. Examining classic films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, as well as current films such as Room, Green Room, and 10 Cloverfield Lane, Connelly shows that the source of enjoyment of confined spaces lies in the viewer's relationship to excess. Cinema of Confinement offers rich insights into the appeal of constricted filmic spaces at a time when one can easily traverse spatial boundaries within the virtual reality of cyberspace.
Post Cinematic Affect
Author: Steven Shaviro
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1846944317
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPost-Cinematic Affect is about what it feels like to live in the affluent West in the early 21st century. Specifically, it explores the structure of feeling that is emerging today in tandem with new digital technologies, together with economic globalization and the financialization of more and more human activities. The 20th century was the age of film and television; these dominant media shaped and reflected our cultural sensibilities. In the 21st century, new digital media help to shape and reflect new forms of sensibility. Movies (moving image and sound works) continue to be made, but they have adopted new formal strategies, they are viewed under massively changed conditions, and they address their spectators in different ways than was the case in the 20th century. The book traces these changes, focusing on four recent moving-image works: Nick Hooker's music video for Grace Jones' song Corporate Cannibal; Olivier Assayas' movie Boarding Gate, starring Asia Argento; Richard Kelly's movie Southland Tales, featuring Justin Timberlake, Dwayne Johnson, and other pop culture celebrities; and Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor's Gamer.
Genealogy of Obedience
Author: Justyna Wlodarczyk
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-08-27
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9004380299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Genealogy of Obedience Justyna Włodarczyk provides a long overdue look at the history of companion dog training methods in North America since the mid-nineteenth century, when the market of popular training handbooks emerged. Włodarczyk argues that changes in the functions and goals of dog training are entangled in bigger cultural discourses; with a particular focus on how animal training has served as a field for playing out anxieties related to race, class and gender in North America. By applying a Foucauldian genealogical perspective, the book shows how changes in training methods correlate with shifts in dominant regimes of power. It traces the rise and fall of obedience as a category for conceptualizing relationships with dogs.
Cinemas Dark and Slow in Digital India
Author: Lalitha Gopalan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-03-16
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 3030540960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a sustained engagement with contemporary Indian feature films from outside the mainstream, including Aaranaya Kaandam, I.D., Kaul, Chauthi Koot, Cosmic Sex, and Gaali Beeja, to undercut the dominance of Bollywood focused film studies. Gopalan assembles films from Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Trivandrum, in addition to independent productions in Bombay cinema, as a way of privileging understudied works that deserve critical attention. The book uses close readings of films and a deep investigation of film style to draw attention to the advent of digital technologies while remaining fully cognizant of ‘the digital’ as a cryptic formulation for considering the sea change in the global circulation of film and finance. This dual focus on both the techno-material conditions of Indian cinema and the film narrative offers a fulsome picture of changing narratives and shifting genres and styles.
Seeing Like a State
Author: James C. Scott
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2020-03-17
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 0300252986
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University
Popular Mechanics
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Published: 2000-01
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPopular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.
Automobilities
Author: Mike Featherstone
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2005-07-12
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781412910897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMobility - flows, movement and migration in social life - has emerged as a central area of sociological debate, yet one of its most dominant forms, automobility, has remained largely ignored. Automobilities presents one of the first examinations of the car and its promise of autonomy and mobility.
